Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Reform des Bundesstatistikgesetzes: notwendige Schritte aus Sicht der Wissenschaft

Trick or Treat? Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal...

What Is the Role of Our National Libraries?

Die US-Wirtschaft im Wahljahr 2012: zwischen Konjunkturoptimismus und Schuldenfalle

Women's Marital Trajectories and the Accumulation of Pension Rights in Germany and the U.S.

Employment-centered pension schemes favor continuous employment careers with (above) average earnings. Typically, men benefit from this pension design, whereas women with different lifecycle work and family choices are structurally disadvantaged. In the past, low pension rights accrued by women were no reason for concern, because they were assumed to share resources with their husband. Increased...

Maternal Labor Market Return, Parental Leave Policies, and Gender Inequality in Housework

This study investigates how the duration of mothers' employment interruption and their work hours upon return affect the division of domestic work in German and British couples after a birth. The analysis uses fixed-effects models after a first or second birth based on couple data from the British Household Panel Study (1991-2008) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (1985-2009). Parental leave...

Zur Entwicklung der Altersarmut in Deutschland

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

The Euro Area Debt Crisis and Strategies for Solution

A FPP Model for Brunei-Darussalam

German Energy Transformation and the Role of European Energy Policy

Investigating a CO2 Tax and a Nuclear Phase out with a Multi-fuel Market Equilibrium Model

Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

A New Model for Analyzing Renewable Energy Integration in Germany

Geschlechtssegregation und Gender Pay Gap in Führungspositionen: welche Rolle spielt die Unternehmensgröße?

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? Gender, Personality and Entrepreneurial Status

Ökonomischer Strukturwandel und Polarisierungstendenzen in Stadtregionen: der Fall Berlin

Futures Premium Regressions and a Latent Factor Day by Day

Trade Persistence and the Limits of Trade Agreements

The trade creating effect of trade agreements reveals a high level of heterogeneity.This paper is concerned with network structures as drivers of this difference in the magnitude. Linking export networks with per-capita income levels, it is claimed that more developed countries are associated with smaller increases in bilateral trade flows if an agreement is present, compared to lower-income...

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy